Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, April 18, 1994 TAG: 9404180016
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C3 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
His phone's been ringing a lot since a newspaper story Wednesday about how the cat accepted the squirrels. They fell from a ceiling nest onto her brood.
People have begged to bring their children and grandchildren over. An environmentalist advised that the squirrels need to start eating nuts in the shell to develop their teeth. Somebody thought the little squirrels should wear flea collars.
The cat belongs to\ Jean Williams and her family, who live near the garage. She says the cat washes the squirrels as thoroughly as she does her kittens. Williams intends to find good homes for them all when they're weaned.
State secrets
Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources\ Kay Coles James' recent talk before the League of Older Americans in Roanoke was full of anecdotes.
Among them:
That on the morning of Gov.\ George Allen's inauguration, her two sons balked at eating hotel food. They wanted some "real food" - fast food, James said. "Don't let the word out" that the secretary of health feeds her children at a fast-food restaurant, she said.
That her husband's habit of cutting the hock off the Thanksgiving ham and throwing it away was not sheer waste. She discovered the habit had its roots in his childhood in Roanoke. His family did not have a ham cooker big enough to accommodate a whole ham.
But by far, James' most telling tidbit was about the governor himself.
"I don't know if you've seen any of the interviews with the governor, but he really does reuse potato chip bags," she said. "I thought he was kidding. But he really does."
Photo finish
Salem School Superintendent\ Wayne Tripp said the picture was the epitome of a sports victory - and it was worth a thousand words.
On the day after the Salem High School boys' basketball team won the state AA championship, a picture in the Roanoke Times & World-News showed coach\ Charlie Morgan being carried off the court on the shoulders of his players.
Someone in the background at University Hall in Charlottesville was waving a Salem flag behind the players.
Tripp liked the picture so much that he thought it should be in Morgan's office. He got a copy enlarged and framed it. "This is what high school athletics is all about," he said.
Tripp presented the picture to Morgan recently when the School Board recognized the basketball team, which had a 25-1 record. The board gave each player a framed copy of a resolution commending Morgan and the team for its season and state championship.
by CNB